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180 Day Rule


You will be asked about this
by Michael B. Skinner · Friday May 15, 2009 4:50 pm  PERMALINK
If you do criminal defense, you will get questions about the 180 day rule. Michigan requires that defendants incarcerated in prison be brought to trial on new charges within 180 days of the prosecutor being notified of the defendant's incarceration. People v Davis stands for the simple proposition that the prosecution only needs to begin the formal process that will bring the defendant to trial within 180 days; it does not need to actually start or even complete the trial within 180 days.